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Interview: Dieter Helm

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From Nature: Oxford economist Dieter Helm co-edits a new book, The Economics and Politics of Climate Change, due out next month. Anna Barnett caught up with him in London to get his take on a long-term strategy for reducing emissions.

There have been a slew of climate policy books out lately — what's new about this one?

We're trying to stand back and take a colder and harder look at the challenge. The question is not so much what we should do as why we've achieved so little so far. Why is it — after all the efforts that have gone into Kyoto, all the goodwill, all the 'political conversion' that has taken place — that so little progress has been made on slowing worldwide emissions growth?

Full story: http://www.nature.com/climate/2009/0909/full/climate.2009.86.html